What Atlas brings to the table
A Rich (in both features and spirit) Markdown Experience
At its core, Atlas aims to transform markdown into a rich writing experience so you can focus on your content and the way you want.
See your formatting come alive as you type—headings, emphasis, and more render beautifully without leaving the simplicity of plain text. Rich text objects like tables, equations, and even images render fully; document links update automatically as you rename and reorganize files; and the entire editor adapts to your preferences with customizable themes, typography, and spacing.
A Highly Customizable Editor
Powerful theme customization enables you to set up the editor how you would like. Build and share themes with others and import other prebuilt themes from editors like Ulysses.
Resizable Images, Tables, and more
The perfect mix of plain-text and rich text objects enable a single editor that you can work in, no need to flip back and forth between a viewer and editor, and no need to write complex markup.
Powerful Linking
Quickly create automatically updating links between documents to build connections without lifting a finger from your keyboard.
Tools to Foster Ideas
Infinite Canvases
Pin document cards, images, and notes, and sketches anywhere on an infinite canvas. Live edit within text-based cards. Draw connections between them. Arrange research materials around your draft, create visual outlines, place content on sketched maps, or simple diagram flows—whatever helps you think through your project and connect the dots. Canvas helps you get whatever you need on paper.
Collect Anything
Keep your sources and inspiration nearby: images, video, webpages, other documents, your own sketches, and whatever else you need to help you build your narrative. Atlas is built to natively sync all of your gathered and created content through iCloud. Start writing on your Mac, snap inspiration from nature on your iPhone camera, save a webpage from Safari while browsing on iPad. All of it comes together without any intervention on your part.
Custom Metadata, Tags, Synopsis, Notes
The Inspector is a panel alongside the editor that reveals document metadata, writing statistics, and connections. Its contents adapt based on the type of document you’re viewing and allow you to drill into the details about your content.
Flexible Exporting and Publishing
Atlas empowers you to organize your content in natural, personal ways to help you publish your project: Keep chapters in a draft? Break them into smaller scenes? Need to export pieces as separate documents? The export tool is designed to give you the best of all worlds, from creating PDF to ePub documents that can be imported into Apple Books, Kindle, Kobo, and most any other eReader.
Static Websites
Easily export HTML that can be self-hosted, shared, or customized to your needs.
ePub for Readers
The Export tool allows you to customize and build powerful, chaptered, e-pubs that can be imported by just about any eReader, including Apple Books.
Sharable Documents
Just about anything in Atlas can be exported into an open format, even canvases.
Atlas
Write. Collect. Publish.